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We here at Twitchy have told you about the Left classifying reading and the ‘worship of the written word‘ as ‘white supremacy’ — no, really.

That’s how they think.

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And government funded schools have responded by teaching not literacy and math, but gender ideology and critical race theory. That’s why in places like Baltimore, few students are proficient in math and literacy. Or in Oregon, where governor Kate Brown suspended proficiency standards.

In the name of ‘equity’, of course.

Those choices have consequences — and profound ones. Students who can’t read also struggle in other subject areas because they rely on reading. Even math. Word problems require a level of reading comprehension.

In short, the woke Left is setting up generations of students to struggle for the rest of their lives.

Now we’re seeing that at colleges:

The Atlantic writes:

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books.

This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.

“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me. The anecdote helped explain the change he was seeing in his students: It’s not that they don’t want to do the reading. It’s that they don’t know how. Middle and high schools have stopped asking them to.

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An absolute travesty.

A fair question.

And we all know the answer.

Sigh.

By making reading an expectation and requiring students to read.

That’s the mentality here.

Exactly this writer’s arguement.

They have to be assigned books to read and not taught that reading is ‘white supremacy.’

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By design.

That’s the problem right there.

Nailed it.

They never pay a price for their failures.

Maybe not. 

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Lots of doubt.